Example sentences of "and [verb] up [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She screwed the cap back on her lipstick case , rolled her lips together , dabbed at the corners with a violet tissue , then snapped shut the mirror-case and zipped up all the contents of her cosmetic-bag . |
| 2 | Trim and cut up all the vegetables into fine slices . |
| 3 | She was taken in by Maggie Taylor and now five month old Teka is fighting fit and lapping up all the attention . |
| 4 | The old woman reflects " " " Now , is like when the fire flew away and ate up all the trees ' " " ( p. 93 ) . |
| 5 | Our negotiator will take the necessary details from you , forward your intention to purchase to the vendor and tie up all the details . |
| 6 | If she stayed here , there would always be the torment of running into Rourke , and stirring up all the pain and unhappiness that loving him had brought . |
| 7 | Cut out biscuits with a 5cm/2½in fluted cutter , and use up all the biscuit mixture by re-rolling as necessary . |
| 8 | He strode through the school and gathered up all the boys he could find , telling them there would be no food until the creature was caught . |
| 9 | I decided to have a farm sale after Uncle went , and put up all the livestock for auction . |
| 10 | And snow and always snow and block up all the paths and roads , fields and ditches . ’ |
| 11 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 12 | The Great Man had risen late , attended to his correspondence while still in bed , lunched and dined extravagantly well ( which she certainly did not ) and stayed up half the night , much to the chagrin of his generals . |
| 13 | One touching moment during a Love Feast in Edenderry was once when a visitor to the service , who had never attended a Love Feast before but who had felt he wished to share in it , stood and held up half the biscuit he had been given . |